1995 Chevrolet P30 Air Bag Pressure

happycamper002 wrote:

darsben1 wrote:

This is the correct answer.

This is misinformation that shouldn't have been. You obviously haven't experienced a blown air bag on one side. I have the same size MH that OP has and I blew the passenger-side rear bag while driving from a lakeside CG in CA.

I couldn't stop on a single lane steep mountain road to check, and besides, there wasn't much I could have done anyway so I kept driving until I got to the nearest town. I pulled into a gas station and the best advice I got from the mechanic was I needed new shocks. (duh)

All that time I was driving from the mountain road, I got some well-meaning motorists behind me motioning that I'm leaning over to tip the MH due to bad off-level condition.

I have also witnessed school buses with blown air bags with the chassis almost touching the pavement.

I deflated the opposite side air bag to almost even out the off-level side to make it home that was almost 100 miles away.

My motor home and I assume most of them are, has almost all the weight on the passenger side: water heater, range, fridge, kitchen cupboard, 32 in flat TV, hood, propane tank and even the motorized doorstep. And to make things worse, the road crown is always sloping to the passenger side making liquid in tanks like fuel, waste and fresh water to settle or nest to that side too.

Weighing an empty RV doesn't reflect the real world condition.

I always check the level and pressure to achieve the level that I'm comfortable with. It doesn't have to be perfect but at least motorists behind you would not be concerned about you falling over the cliff when driving the shoreline of the Pacific Ocean in Northern CA.

Yes, to a certain extent, it does help in keeping the MH level.

You state you had a problem with REAR airbags. YOU obviously do not know what you are talking about. There is a difference between the P-32 and the OLDER P-30 Chevy chassis. As I stated, on the P-30 chassis, the inside the FRONT coils, CHEVY installed the Air bags to INCREASE the front load capacity of the Front end. Chevy never installed REAR air bags on a P-30 chassis, but some OEM Class A makers did. The CHEVY P-30 chassis REQUIRES operational air bags for correct front end handling. You can use aftermarket air bags which a lot of people do. I worked on Chevy Class A motorhomes from 1979 until about 1991, when we dropped chassis service. I STILL am a RV Technician and have been for 37 years. Doug

AND, your statement about Load distribution. Poppycock. It all depends on the floorplan and the OEM maker on how appliances and various items are installed on the RV. They do NOT load up the pass side or even one side as a standard design. They DO try to equalize the load distribution to some extent.